Victoria Haven

Currently on view at Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle is a solo exhibition of new and past work by Victoria Haven, entitled HIGHER… HIGHER. For Haven’s first solo show at the renown Seattle space, the artist expanded her practice of creating works on paper and sculptural pieces to explore additional media, including photography and wall painting. This exhibition incorporates works in all of these disparate mediums, but with a cohesive aesthetic of geometric shape, delicate lines and text. With this work, it’s as much about what the artist created as it is about what she didn’t touch. The negative space that lingers inside the pointed angles of Haven’s paintings and amid the matrix of shapes illustrated in works of ink on fragile varieties of paper, consorts with the work to create a full, yet ethereal image of her investigation of shape and space. Shadows on the wall below the lifted steel sculptures become as important to the pieces as their polished nickel or powder coated finishes. HIGHER… HIGHER is on view through May 16th.